The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1887-08-11
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Perhaps The followiag from The Bismjnghmm
~ Of July 18th, will answer tho paspuee !:
Private aGvices frnm the managers Of thu rod
inform q that everything b working smootniy
and that work will begin 10 the not distAnt u
ture On thisend ol the line Il takes time 70 ges
ready to build . railroad. OF one thing our poo
pie may be sure. When work b comme0cod
the road win be pushed 10 completion There
will be NO failures with the present company.
They have thus far fulfilled every promise and
engagement TO the letter and viii continue 70 do
the same thing 70 the end. just wait. Brother
Rancy-dont get impaiicnt-and We will invite
you to excura over the B., G. d F. road, by way
Of cambridge. TO Savannah, long bef're you can
extend % an invitation to excurt over the G. g.,
BY way Of Albany, to the same place The sur
vcying corps has already reached Tallahassee.
Preliminary surveys of the Birmingham. Ma-
con and LaGrange Railroad have just been
completed, aud parties have been ordered 10
each end Of the line TO commence l0cationa
Rights Of way have been about secured through
Alabama. The route surveyed 10 unusually di.
rect tn the Atlantic coast, shortening the distance
from Birmingham to Savannah about los miles
over any existing route, and will be naturally
economical In construction, only one tunnel be-
ing necessary on the whole line, and thai short
one OF about 500 feet, few miles east ri Talla-
out the whole survey.
Arrangements are being perfected for the plac
ing OF the bonds of this road and il may be con-
fdently expected that the work OF construction
will begin at an early day.
This Is . valuable line TO Birmingham, and
road which will have q good local, passenger
and freight business through its entire route.
The Tallahassee Bainbridge and Western
Railroad, which connects with the Birmingham
and Savannah near West Point, Ga, has been
quietly pushed for some time. and work upon It
has advanced to q greater degree than the public
Is aware Of The distance from the Western and
North " estern States, via Birmingham to Florida,
is shortened over any existing route from 11o to
900 miles.
A locating party will reach Tallahassee, Fla
this week, having made the survey from Cuth,
bert Ga, to Tallahassee in two months. This
Is an unusually light line running through the
yellow pine district of Southwest Georgia. About
sixty-four miles of this route is already graded
and large donations of money and timber lands
have been made. There is every prospect that
the work will be let to contract in very short
while, as soon as the bonds and mortgages are
gotten in proper shape. The people all along
the route are enthusiastic for the road and are
giving literally to it, according to their means.
The above is from the Cuthbert (Ga.) Liberal,
and is con 5incng evidence that great interest is
being taken in the Birmingham, Georgia and
Florida Railroad by business men In Georgia
and Alabama. This road will touch TallAhas-
see on its way to the Atlantic coast, and the
surveying corps Of the road reached Tallahassee
last week, after having located the line from
Columbus Ca. via cambridge.
The line passes through an excellent agricul-
tural and stock raising country, which is already
occupied by prosperous and progressive farm
erS.
Reliable assurance is received that the con-
structon of the road will be pushed as rapidly az
possible, and it will connect with the Alabama,
Florida and Atlantic Railroad, now being built
in the direction of this city from South Florida.
The prospects for the speedy construction of the
two lines that will form the great system
between Birmingham and the Atlantic coast
passing this city, are more encouraging now than
at any previous time.
Capitalists are becoming acquainted with the
undeveloped resources OF the country to be ira
versed by this road, and it is evident that the
through traffic over the line will be highly re-
munsrative from the commencement of opera
tious. These, with other conditions, will make
this system of roads a fine investment and the
management is meeting with great success. Nc
enterprise could prove more beneficial to ITALIA
hassee than the completion Of this grand trunk
line and the fact that its early construction is
sured, should encourage our citizens 10 renew
their energies in producing articles for transpor
tation and in improving the naturally fertile and
picturesque country through which the line will
pass